Cases

Al-Koronky v Time-Life Entertainment Group Ltd & Another (CA)

Held

Dismissing the appeal: (1) Apart from parts of the first Claimant’s fresh evidence which amount to recent admissions against interest, there was no good ground for admitting the evidence assembled on the Claimants’ behalf since the hearing before Eady J. (2) The Claimants’ evidence as it stood before Eady J was not such that he was compelled to find their case overwhelmingly or highly likely to succeed at trial. (3) In setting the amount the judge was right to conclude that he had not been provided with a full and candid account of the Claimants’ actual and potential means. The sum he set was a suitable sum in the exercise of his discretion. (4) In deciding that enforcement of a costs order in the defendants’ favour would be impractical in Sudan Eady J acted on evidence and breached no principle of international comity.

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